> On the recent FB outage, there was an employee posting inside information on reddit - media companies just took it at face value and ran around with it report

> On the recent FB outage, there was an employee posting inside information on reddit - media companies just took it at face value and ran around with it reporting as it was what FB itself was saying about the outage. To be fair, I think the media would have done that even with a "speaking only for myself" disclaimer.